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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to revise the mother and baby home redress scheme to include those who spent less than six months in a mother and baby home institution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36723/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (3 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 365. To ask the Minister for Health if the new national drugs strategy will include a comprehensive policy on tackling alcohol consumption; if this will be prioritised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36837/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [32399/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Ireland is becoming the most expensive country in Europe to go to college. With the threatened withdrawal of the €1,000 assistance to parents, this will further be the case. Parents and students are making CAO decisions now about whether or not they can limit or pick cheaper courses or courses nearer to where they live, but the Taoiseach will not decide until July. Some 100,000...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [33614/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: For a year and a half, the people of Dublin West have been guinea pigs for drone infrastructure. The potential for drones to do very important work for humans is definitely there, such as emergency relief, medicine, reaching isolated places due to geography and so on. Such new infrastructure should be with community assent and approval and not inflicted with no recourse by private companies...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, I know but----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: For fast food?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: I am.

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: The Commissioner of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, is not just complicit in the genocide in Gaza; she is actively supportive of the Israeli state and what it is doing. She still uses the term, "Israel's right to defend itself", right up until now. Even when Gaza is being starved, children are being killed for sport and doctors are being murdered, Israel has the right to defend itself,...

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----you can distinguish your vote-----

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----when you make a vote, and can come out publicly to explain your stance, but the reality is it is a vote of no confidence. If the parties are not happy about that, they can put one themselves, which should have happened a long time ago. I will raise another issue. The Minister of State and the Government constantly say how much Ireland is doing. There are two examples of basic care...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on his recent engagements with other states regarding the genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38251/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: What interaction has the Tánaiste had with other states, particularly in the EU, about Gaza? His colleagues in the EU Parliament will today apparently endorse Ursula von der Leyen despite her complete approval of the genocide that is taking place. She made comments about Israel's right to defend itself at a time when the Tánaiste has recognised that a genocide is taking place....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Given all the Tánaiste has said about recognising there is a genocide and our State's recognition of the Palestinian state, how can we refuse visas to children who are coming here to escape the bombardment in Gaza? Moataz Sarsour GAA Club has been refused visas. From talking and writing with the people involved, I know they have complied on multiple occasions with all the requests of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: -----who were promised care. The Government has stalled the treatment of 18 children from Palestine. The Tánaiste can clarify the situation, but it seems as if it has been stalled because those children may be bringing siblings with them. There seems to be an appalling attitude to getting people over here. I have, for example, tried to get the wife of a citizen and constituent over...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: It seems mealy-mouthed in the extreme to call it a genocide when, as one of the richest countries in the world, with a massive budget surplus and health service, a basic thing we could do is to treat some of these children who have suffered the most appalling treatment. They are now being checked repeatedly to ensure that only one person is coming with them. This is terrible. Why is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: Why should doctors who are trying to escape from Gaza have to go through the normal process? Can we not give some extra help?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Ruth Coppinger: My office has been contacted by someone who became an Irish citizen and was not able to have their non-binary status recognised on their passport, or the new name they adopted in the country they came from. Non-binary and intersex status is recognised in Denmark, Germany, Malta, Iceland, the Netherlands and even the USA, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India and so many...